The Return
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 19, 2004
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Kino Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Konstantin Lavronenko & Natalia Vdovina | |
Directed by | Andrey Zvyagintsev | |
Music by | Andrey Dergatchev | |
Screenwriting by | Vladimir Moiseenko & Alexander Novotsky | |
Produced by | Dmitry Lesnevsky | |
Director of Photography: | Mikhail Kritschmen |
Entertainment Reviews:
Mysterious, compelling, visually inventive, The Return is a quiet but intense metaphysical-drama of great emotional impact and insight.
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Film4
[A] stunning psychological thriller....One of those great, unnerving movies that lingers in the mind long after the lights have come up.
Entertainment Weekly
[A] stinging drama about the unbridgeable gulf between parents and children.
Movieline's Hollywood Life
Rating: A- --
A harrowing, elusively biblical account… echoes of Abraham and Isaac, the Gospel parables about fathers and pairs of sons, and the Second Coming.
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Decent Films Guide
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Deftly explores the dynamic between father and son and its roots in masculine rage.
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From the Front Row
Beautifully structured and emotionally wrenching.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/5 --
Si uno se queda sólo en la primera lectura del drama familiar, la experiencia puede ser bastante desconcertante.
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Uruguay Total
Product Description:
Director Andrei Zvyagintsev makes a phenomenally assured directorial debut with THE RETURN. The spare tale focuses on two young brothers, Andrey (Vladimir Garin) and Vanya (Ivan Dobronravov), whose lives are thrown into a tailspin when their father (Konstantin Lavroneko) returns after a 12-year absence. Bullish and intense, the patriarch takes the boys on a mysterious journey through a bleak yet beautiful Russian landscape. While Andrey looks up to his father, Vanya has trouble forgiving him for disappearing so many years ago. This strain adds even more drama to the already tense atmosphere, culminating in a shocking event that will change their lives forever.
Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2003 Venice Film Festival, THE RETURN is a masterful drama that works on an allegorical, as well as literal, level. Zvyaginstev's imagery is at once painterly, abstract, and realistic. Newcomers Garin and Dobronravov deliver performances that are deeply affecting. In a cruel twist of irony, actor Garin drowned just after shooting in the same water where the opening scene took place, which adds another level of bleakness to the film's somber tone. THE RETURN is a truly haunting work of art.
Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2003 Venice Film Festival, THE RETURN is a masterful drama that works on an allegorical, as well as literal, level. Zvyaginstev's imagery is at once painterly, abstract, and realistic. Newcomers Garin and Dobronravov deliver performances that are deeply affecting. In a cruel twist of irony, actor Garin drowned just after shooting in the same water where the opening scene took place, which adds another level of bleakness to the film's somber tone. THE RETURN is a truly haunting work of art.
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